The end of the manual transmission is near?

Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by kkielhofner on Thursday August 25, 2022 @09:12AM (#32593255)

I live in a rural area where pickup trucks are used for farm tasks, hunting (deer season, coyote season is every day), construction, towing, etc at a much higher rate than you probably see across the US in average.

Among the community of people that use their trucks for "real work" (whatever their definition of that may be) an immaculately kept truck like the one you're describing would be referred to as a "pavement princess".

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Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by JasserInicide on Thursday August 25, 2022 @09:37AM (#32593539)

Ok, but most trucks sold today are indeed pavement princesses. For every one you see in the country doing work, there's 5 others being parked on tenth/quarter-acre lots in the cities/suburbs.

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Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by kkielhofner on Thursday August 25, 2022 @09:45AM (#32593625)

I'd say it's not even close. As another commenter noted pavement princesses are probably > 90% of trucks sold today.

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Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by Retric on Thursday August 25, 2022 @12:14PM (#32595865)

My guess is it’s closer to 25%, once you consider people who use a snow plow, haul a boat/camper/trailer etc. Now sure many of these could be replaced with smaller trucks without extended cabs etc, but the choice of pickup truck was still useful.

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